Code
FLEMA
Growth form
Shrub
Biological cycle
Perennial
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Crotalaria macrophylla Willd. |
| synonym | Flemingia angustifolia Roxb. |
| synonym | Flemingia bhottea Buch.-Ham. |
| synonym | Flemingia capitata Buch.-Ham. |
| synonym | Flemingia congesta var. latifolia Baker |
| synonym | Flemingia congesta var. nana (Roxb.)Baker |
| synonym | Flemingia congesta var. semialata Baker |
| synonym | Flemingia congesta var. viridis (Kurz)Prain |
| synonym | Flemingia congesta W.T.Aiton |
| synonym | Flemingia cumingiana Benth. |
| synonym | Flemingia ferruginea Graham |
| synonym | Flemingia lamontii Hance |
| synonym | Flemingia latifolia Benth. |
| synonym | Flemingia macrophylla var. viridis (Prain)H.B.Naithani |
| synonym | Flemingia nana Roxb. |
| synonym | Flemingia philippinensis Merr. & Rolfe |
| synonym | Flemingia semialata var. viridis Kurz |
| synonym | Flemingia semialata W.T.Aiton |
| synonym | Flemingia teysmanniana Miq. |
| synonym | Flemingia trinerva Desf. |
| synonym | Flemingia wallichii Wight & Arn. |
| synonym | Flemingia wightiana Graham |
| synonym | Flemingia yunnanensis Franch. |
| synonym | Moghania cumingiana (Benth.)Kuntze |
| synonym | Moghania latifolia (Benth.)Mukerjee |
| synonym | Moghania macrophylla (Willd.)Kuntze |
| synonym | Moghania philippinensis (Merr. & Rolfe)H.L.Li |
| synonym | Moghania semialata (W.T.Aiton)Mukerjee |
| synonym | Moghania semialata var. viridis (Kurz)Mukerjee |
| synonym | Moghania sericans (Kurz)Mukerjee |
| synonym | Moghania teysmanniana (Miq.)H.L.Li |
| synonym | Moghania wallichii (Wight & Arn.)Kuntze |
| synonym | Rhynchosia crotalarioides DC. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Flemingia macrophylla is a shrub, reaching over 2 m high, with more or less ribbed branches, covered with a dense pubescence of appressed hairs. The leaves are alternate, compound, trifoliate, with oval-triangular stipules, deciduous; the leaflets are elliptic to closely ovate-oblong, 4 to 15 cm long and 2 to 8 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the top, having a pubescent underside, especially on veins and dotted with small yellow glands. The inflorescences are axillary, sub sessile racemes, dense, multiflora, 2 to 10 cm long. The papilionaceous type flowers, 7 to 10 mm long, have pink or purple corolla. The fruits are oblong-ellipsoid pods, 12 to 15 mm long containing spherical, black seeds, 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter.
Flemingia macrophylla is a shrub, reaching over 2 m high, with more or less ribbed branches, covered with a dense pubescence of appressed hairs. The leaves are alternate, compound, trifoliate, with oval-triangular stipules, deciduous; the leaflets are elliptic to closely ovate-oblong, 4 to 15 cm long and 2 to 8 cm wide, acute to acuminate at the top, having a pubescent underside, especially on veins and dotted with small yellow glands. The inflorescences are axillary, sub sessile racemes, dense, multiflora, 2 to 10 cm long. The papilionaceous type flowers, 7 to 10 mm long, have pink or purple corolla. The fruits are oblong-ellipsoid pods, 12 to 15 mm long containing spherical, black seeds, 3 to 3.5 mm in diameter.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Perenial
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Madagascar: Flemingia macrophylla flowers during the period of January to April.
Mayotte: Flemingia macrophylla flowers and fructifies all year round.
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Morphology
Growth form
Erected
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Compound
Type of prefoliation
Leaf ratio medium
Broad leaves
Compound leaf type
Trifoliate leaf
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Ridged or grooved
Root type
Taproot
Hollow or solid stem
Solid stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Lanceolate stipule
Leaf attachment type
with petiole
Fruit type
Pod
Pod type
Cylindrical pod in section
Lamina base
rounded
acute
Lamina margin
hairy
entire
Lamina apex
apiculate
acute
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Lowerface pilosity
Dense hairy
Lowerface hair type
Glands
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
in arc
Flower color
Purple
Inflorescence type
Raceme with alternate sessile flowers
Stem pilosity
Dense hairy
Stem hair type
Short and long hairs mixed
Life form
Shrub
Ecology
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Madagascar: Flemingia macrophylla grows on alluvial soils, ferralitic more or less humiferous soils, or of volcanic origin, rich enough, in sunny places or slightly shaded. It is a weed of more or less extensive cropping systems, including dry slash-and-burn and perennial crops (fruit) or in fallow fields, on the banks of crops and canals, embankments, the edges of paths and around dwellings in humid zones, up to 1200 m altitude, across the wet eastern slopes and highlands.
Mayotte: F. macrophylla is an exotic species naturalized in natural wetlands, such as freshwater resurgences and swamps, and in ditches.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Agroforestry
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Origin
Flemingia macrophylla is native to Southeast Asia.
Worldwide distribution
This species is found in India and Pakistan, Southeast Asia, China, Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, introduced and naturalized in Africa and the South-west Indian Ocean islands.
Flemingia macrophylla is native to Southeast Asia.
Worldwide distribution
This species is found in India and Pakistan, Southeast Asia, China, Indonesia, the Pacific Islands, introduced and naturalized in Africa and the South-west Indian Ocean islands.
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Description
Geographical distibution
Reunion Island
Comoros
Mauritius
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Madagascar: Flemingia macrophylla is a weed species, relatively infrequent and often sparsely abundant in crops. It does not present any particular difficulty except the size of the plant. This is a species introduced and naturalized in humid zones and sub-humid; it is well adapted on the slopes of the east coast and highlands and at medium altitude. F. macrophylla can be locally abundant along the edges of perennial crops on downslopes.
Madagascar: Flemingia macrophylla is a weed species, relatively infrequent and often sparsely abundant in crops. It does not present any particular difficulty except the size of the plant. This is a species introduced and naturalized in humid zones and sub-humid; it is well adapted on the slopes of the east coast and highlands and at medium altitude. F. macrophylla can be locally abundant along the edges of perennial crops on downslopes.
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
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Medicinal: Flemingia macrophylla is acknowledged as a medicinal plant but remains little known and little used in Madagascar.
Agronomy: F. macrophylla is a plant used in agro-forestry; it is used as a hedge to fight against soil erosion, as windbreak or plant shade for young coffee plants.
Agronomy: F. macrophylla is a plant used in agro-forestry; it is used as a hedge to fight against soil erosion, as windbreak or plant shade for young coffee plants.
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Management
Local management
Madagascar: Flemingia macrophylla is controlled by means of small hand tools such as machetes or angady in cropping systems of rainfed rice in slash and burned and in perennial cultivation or in fruit crops, conducted extensively.
Madagascar: Flemingia macrophylla is controlled by means of small hand tools such as machetes or angady in cropping systems of rainfed rice in slash and burned and in perennial cultivation or in fruit crops, conducted extensively.
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Barthelat, F. 2019. La Flore illustrée de Mayotte. Meze, Paris, France, Collection Inventaires et Biodiversité, Biotope – Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 487 p.
- DU PUY D. J., LABAT J. N., RABEVOHITRA R., VILLIERS J. F., BOSSER J. & MOAT J., 2002 – The Leguminoseae of Madagascar. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, Kew, 2002, p 589-590.
Information Listing > References
- Barthelat, F. 2019. La Flore illustrée de Mayotte. Meze, Paris, France, Collection Inventaires et Biodiversité, Biotope – Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 487 p.
- DU PUY D. J., LABAT J. N., RABEVOHITRA R., VILLIERS J. F., BOSSER J. & MOAT J., 2002 – The Leguminoseae of Madagascar. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, Kew, 2002, p 589-590.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Fabales |
| Family | Fabaceae |
| Genus | Flemingia |
| Species | Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Merr. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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